Books and media in the area of Biology can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings.In addition, you have limit your results to Audio Visual materials or materials located at Wayne College Library. View Tipsheet
If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLink Central Catalog View Tipsheet: OhioLink Central Catalog
For Examaple:
Ancient civilization and Rome
Maya and Religion
Hans and Weapons
Tribal society
18th century and Europe
First crusades
Middle East and the Bible
Suggested Subject Headings:
Military History
World History
View a list of subtopics on Civilization
View a list of Subtopics on history
View a list of subtopics under Archaeology
Browse the Shelves by Call Number:
BL (Religion)
CB (Ancient World)
CC (Archaeology)
D818- D838 (World War I and World War II)
D-DQ (Europe)
DS (Asia, Middle East, India, China and Japan)
DT (Africa)
E (United States History)
HM (Sociology)
HN (Social History)
HQ (Family life and women studies)
ML (Music)
N (Art)
U-V (Military Science)
Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection
Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering many subject areas. Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These electronic references cover a wide variety of topics and subjects — ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities Humanities E-Bookis an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies.(View website for tips on searching in Humanities E-Book Collections) In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life. Oxford Reference Online brings together subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.(View a tutorial on searching Oxford reference Online) Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books
Anthropology Pluscompilation of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropological Index and Harvard's Anthropological Literature. The World's largest source of anthropological, archaeological, and related interdisciplinary research. Arts & Humanities Citation Index : A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Art Full Text Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of publications, with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Electronic Journal Center : An online periodical archive offering full text of over 6000 research journals. Encyclopædia Britannica is a comprehensive encyclopedia with articles often written by renowned scholars. A good resource to begin research on an unfamilar topic. Columbia Gazetteer of the world is encyclopedia of geographical places and features in the world. Includes information of demographics, physical geography, political boundaries, industry, trade, agriculture, history, archaeology, transportation, latitude and longitude, elevation, and variant names and spellings. Gale Biography Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. Humanities International Complete : Provides full text journals, books and other published sources from around the world. JSTOR : An online periodical archive with the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
Recommended Websites
Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theater, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world. Best of the Web with the National Endowment for the Humanities offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. Catholic encyclopedia is online encyclopedia that covers church history within the Western World, its doctrines, art and literature. Humanities WWW Virtual Library alphabetical directory of humanities topics such as archaeology, architecture, literature, philosophy with its own virtual library. Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use. Open Directory History: a subject directory listing History websites by region, time period and topic. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an online encyclopedia Voices of the Shuttle: a directory of Humanities websites produced and maintained by the University of California World Bank database provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the data catalog. World History Sources (homepage, with links to primary sources, plus special sections on documents and pedagogical tools) (Center for History and New Media, George Mason U.)
This is a series of DVDs about historical events and people from "The Last Stand of the Spartans" to" Alexander the Great Conquests"
Suggested Titles CB 311 .L67 DVD Lost Civilizations (4 volume set) D 20 .H696 2002 DVD History's turning Points (4 volume set) D 62 .D43 2006 DVD Decisive battles. The ancient world: 13 defining moments from the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to the struggle over the Persian Empire D 121 .D37 2007 DVD The dark ages : the fall of civilization, the rise of a new world order DG 89 .L4463 DVD Legions of Rome: three volume set
YouTube to find documentary films Databases: Digitial Resources Commons OhioLink covers many subjects. Currently includes videos from the distributor Films for the Humanities and Sciences. Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere
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Finding Books & Media
Books and media in the area of Biology can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings.In addition, you have limit your results to Audio Visual materials or materials located at Wayne College Library. View TipsheetIf you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLink Central Catalog
View Tipsheet: OhioLink Central Catalog
For Examaple:
Ancient civilization and Rome
Maya and Religion
Hans and Weapons
Tribal society
18th century and Europe
First crusades
Middle East and the Bible
Suggested Subject Headings:
Military HistoryWorld History
View a list of subtopics on Civilization
View a list of Subtopics on history
View a list of subtopics under Archaeology
Browse the Shelves by Call Number:
BL (Religion)CB (Ancient World)
CC (Archaeology)
D818- D838 (World War I and World War II)
D-DQ (Europe)
DS (Asia, Middle East, India, China and Japan)
DT (Africa)
E (United States History)
HM (Sociology)
HN (Social History)
HQ (Family life and women studies)
ML (Music)
N (Art)
U-V (Military Science)
Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection
Books in the library's collection:
Ref BD 21 .O97 2011 Oxford handbook of world philosophyRef BL 311 .M97 2000 Myths and Legends of the world
Ref CB 69 .D35 2009 Daily life through world history in primary documents
Ref CB 311 .E54 2002 Encyclopedia of the ancient world
CC 70 .W68 2008 World encyclopedia of archaeology : the world's most significant sites and cultural treasures
Ref CS 27 .M67 Dynasties of the world : a chronological and genealogical handbook (print and online)
Ref CT 114 .G74 2005 Great lives from history. The Middle Ages, 477-1453
Ref D9 .W67 2011 World history encyclopedia
Ref D55 .G74 2004 Great lives from history. The ancient world, prehistory-476 C.E.
Ref GN 333 .W67 2009 Worldmark Encyclopedia of culture and daily life (print and online)
Ref GT 31 .G74 2004 Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life : a tour through history from ancient times to the present
Ref GT 511 .L474 2008 What people wore when : a complete illustrated history of costume from ancient times to the nineteenth century for every level of society
Ref HQ 21 .G67125 2008 Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history
Ref HQ 503 .C85 2012 Cultural history of childhood and family
Ref N 5300 .H674 2004 Art in World history
Ref TX 353 .C255 2000 Cambridge world history of food
Online book databases or collections of E-books:
Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering many subject areas.Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These electronic references cover a wide variety of topics and subjects — ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities
Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies.(View website for tips on searching in Humanities E-Book Collections)
In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life.
Oxford Reference Online brings together subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.(View a tutorial on searching Oxford reference Online)
Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books
Recommended Databases:
Academic Search Complete:The world's most comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database. View TipsheetView a tutorial: Performed an advance search using EBSCO Host Databases
View a tutorial: Perform a basic search using EBSCO host databases
Anthropology Plus compilation of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropological Index and Harvard's Anthropological Literature. The World's largest source of anthropological, archaeological, and related interdisciplinary research.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index : A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
Art Full Text Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of publications, with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Electronic Journal Center : An online periodical archive offering full text of over 6000 research journals.
Encyclopædia Britannica is a comprehensive encyclopedia with articles often written by renowned scholars. A good resource to begin research on an unfamilar topic.
Columbia Gazetteer of the world is encyclopedia of geographical places and features in the world. Includes information of demographics, physical geography, political boundaries, industry, trade, agriculture, history, archaeology, transportation, latitude and longitude, elevation, and variant names and spellings.
Gale Biography Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people.
Humanities International Complete : Provides full text journals, books and other published sources from around the world.
JSTOR : An online periodical archive with the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
Recommended Websites
Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theater, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world.Best of the Web with the National Endowment for the Humanities offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.
Catholic encyclopedia is online encyclopedia that covers church history within the Western World, its doctrines, art and literature.
Humanities WWW Virtual Library alphabetical directory of humanities topics such as archaeology, architecture, literature, philosophy with its own virtual library.
Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use.
Open Directory History: a subject directory listing History websites by region, time period and topic.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an online encyclopedia
Voices of the Shuttle: a directory of Humanities websites produced and maintained by the University of California
World Bank database provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the data catalog.
World History Sources (homepage, with links to primary sources, plus special sections on documents and pedagogical tools) (Center for History and New Media, George Mason U.)
E-Journals:
HistorianHistory of the Family
Journal of late antiquity
Journal of world history
E-Journal Finder: A list of History journals
Electronic Journal Center: A list of History Journals
Professional Organizations:
American Historical AssociationHistorical Society
National Coalition for History
Organization of American Historians
World History Association
Brush Up on the Basics
Need an overview on this topic? Check out these basic resources:Audiovisual:
Series:Biography Series
- This is a series of DVDs about famous people from Cleopatra to St. Francis of Assisi produced by the History Channel and A & E
History ChannelSuggested Titles
CB 311 .L67 DVD Lost Civilizations (4 volume set)
D 20 .H696 2002 DVD History's turning Points (4 volume set)
D 62 .D43 2006 DVD Decisive battles. The ancient world: 13 defining moments from the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to the struggle over the Persian Empire
D 121 .D37 2007 DVD The dark ages : the fall of civilization, the rise of a new world order
DG 89 .L4463 DVD Legions of Rome: three volume set
- v.1 Punic Wars
- v.1 Gallic Wars
- v.3 Roman Invasions of Britain
DG 270 .R66 2008 DVD Rome: rise and fall of an empireDL 65 .B37 2003 DVD Barbarians: Two volume set:
Books:
BR 252 .L82 2013 History of the church in the Middle AgesBR 305.3 .M37 Reformation: a very short introduction
D 5.5 .M34 Mammoth book of eye-witness history
D 70 .C865 2003 The Celts a very short introduction
D 25 .A32 2011 001 battles that changed the course of world history
DA 195 .G37 2000 The Norman conquest a very short introduction
DC 148 .D688 2001 French Revolution a very short introduction
DG 272 .K45 2006 The Roman Empire: a very short introduction
ML 3470 .B68 2002 World music: a very short Introduction
Online Materials:
Suggested E- Book titles:
Ancient Greece : from prehistoric to Hellenistic timesAncient Near East : history, society and economy
The early medieval world : from the fall of Rome to the time of Charlemagne
Encyclopedia of Latin America
Gale Encyclopedia of Religion
Gale encyclopedia of world history.
Greeks who made us who we are : eighteen ancient philosophers, scientists, poets and others
History of India
Monarchs of the Renaissance : the lives and reigns of 42 European kings and queens
Oxford companion to military history
Suggested On Line Documentaries
YouTube to find documentary filmsDatabases:
Digitial Resources Commons OhioLink covers many subjects. Currently includes videos from the distributor Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere
Document Your Sources
The Smucker Learning Center's documents and informationStyle Guides in the Library's collection:
Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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